Lab Assignment 13

English 104 Name : ______________________________

Lab Section : _____________ Lab Instructor : _______________________

Lab Assignment 13 (Scoring Day )Objective

To plan and write a short essay under pressure (a specific time period

To practice writing in parallel sentence structures Focus

Planning and Composing in a Timed Situation Procedure

Step 1 : find a copy of the Spring 2007 English 104 final examination . Follow the directions carefully . You will spend 90 minutes on this assignment

Step 2 . Read the handout Parallelism ' on page 2 . Spend 15 minutes doing the exercises on pages 3 and 4

p Step 3 . Edit today 's composition for effective parallel structure

During Group Lab : The instructor may ask you to score your own essay or the essay of another writer . The instructor will also score your essay Compare your score (or your peer 's score ) with the score given to you by your instructor . During the scoring process , the instructor may ask you to finish the exercises on parallelism

At the end of Group Lab

1 . Detach front page

2 . Staple front page only to your written work

3 . Turn in your work to lab instructor or assistant

4 . Keep all other material in your lab folder Parallelism

Parallelism or parallel structure is an effective way to add smoothness and power to your writing . Parallelism is a balance of two or more similar words , phrases , or clauses

Compare the two versions of each of these sentences . All items in a series should be in the same grammatical construction

1 . She likes dancing , swimming , and to jog

CORRECTED : She likes dancing , swimming , and jogging

2 . The cable runs across the roof the north wall is where it runs down

CORRECTED : The cable runs across the roof and down the north wall

3 . He admires people with strong convictions and who think for themselves

CORRECTED : He admires people who have strong convictions and who think for themselves Sentences 2 , 4 , and 6 use parallelism to express parallel ideas

In sentence 2 , dancing , swimming , and jogging are parallel all three are the -ing forms of verbs used here as nouns

In sentence 4 , across the roof and down the north wall are parallel prepositional phrases , each consisting of a preposition and its object

In sentence 6 , who have strong convictions and who think for themselves are parallel clauses beginning with the word who

Sometimes two entire sentences can be parallel

PARALLELISM EXERCISE

Rewrite each of the following sentences using parallel structure to accent parallel ideas

Example : The summer in Louisiana is very hot and has high humidity

Rewrite : The summer in Louisiana is very hot and humid

1 . Teresa is a gifted woman-a chemist , does the carpentry , and she can cook

Teresa is a gifted chemist , carpenter and cook 2 . The shape of the rock , how big it was , and its color reminded me of a small elephant

The shape , weight and color of the rock reminded me of a small elephant .3 . Chia , my dog , is overweight and moves clumsily

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